Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Mass Timings: August 15, 2025 at 8:30am (Saint Matthew Catholic Parish).
Father in heaven, all creation rightly gives you praise,
for all life and all holiness come from you. In the
plan of your wisdom she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven.
May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness and join in her hymn of
endless love and praise.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
August 15th the Church celebrates the
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holy
Day of Obligation. On November 1, 1950, Pius XII defined the dogma of the Assumption. Thus he
solemnly proclaimed that the belief whereby the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the close of her earthly life,
was taken up, body and soul, into the glory of heaven, definitively forms part of the deposit of faith,
received from the Apostles.
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